A British anthology series featuring tales of horror, mystery and suspense. Most episodes featured a twist ending, and many of them were based on short stories by well–known writer Roald Dahl, who also served as the show's host during its first two seasons.

Dahl's introductory words to "Man From the South", which was the first episode:

"Do you know what keeps haunting me with just about every paragraph I write when I'm doing a story? It's the thought that the reader's interest is easily lost. That's why, as a kind of insurance, I often try to create severe tension among the characters … so that, hopefully, every reader will be compelled to go on reading or the viewer to go on viewing. The one coming up now is a tension story, and if any of you switch it off before it's over you'll be punching me right on the nose. I hope you won't do that."

A wise man believes only in lies, trusts only in the absurd, and learns to expect, the unexpected.

So began each episode of a new British anthology show in the late 1970's when it hit American television. Ron Grainer’s theme song quickly followed. A light would turn on the various features of the faces of wooden horses in a carousel as each line was read, then when the theme kicked in, the horses would suddenly be on their ever-circling journey to nowhere. So were the opening credits in the American copies of this series.

With only the original and slightly racier British credits in tow, the greatest anthology series in British TV history has stunningly, shockingly, and amazingly arrived on DVD. Acorn Media has issued Roald Dahl’s Tales Of The Unexpected in a four-DVD set that covers all the episodes hosted by Dahl himself! The series would run eleven seasons, but he was there for the first two and was writer of just about all of them, save five shows. Eventually, it was called Tales Of The Unexpected with Roald Dahl before Dahl’s name was dropped altogether and John Houseman took over as host of stories most not written by Dahl.

Produced on PAL-format analog videotape, this is the most literate anthology series in the Horror/Thriller genre since Rod Serling’s original Twilight Zone and it has the writing, stars and crew to back it up. It is also one of the all-time classics of British TV.

I wrote:

For our joy, the three first seasons are available and complete! What is unfortunately not true for the rest of the series. The first four seasons have been fully edited on DVD, but most of the rippers bought incomplete Acorn Media boxsets. So too bad, but we may not find the 112 episodes before a while. Anyway, here's what I've found (others may come, you never know...).All credits and thanks go to the rippers : UDF for the two first seasons, danieldrader for seasons three, four, five & six coming soon and 1717alan for the latest episodes of the show. Thank you. Please, go on -demonoid.com- to visit them and be grateful for the work they've done.

Spud's wishes, the plots, the screens, the links ecaetera:[1x01] = QPel and N-VOP, [1x02] to [2x04] = QPel and a lot of them are cropped.

Though his name was being put below the title at one point, Roald Dahl stayed on for Tales Of The Unexpected a little while longer than remembered and Acorn Media has issued another solid four-DVD set that covers a few more shows hosted by Dahl himself. Sometimes dubbed Tales Of The Unexpected with Roald Dahl, Seasons 3, 4 & most of 5 fill these next four DVDs as predicted.

Nicholas Sheffo again and always from Fulvue Drive-in, about the third set wrote:

Acorn Media has decided to continue releasing Tales Of The Unexpected as Roald Dahl’s Tales Of The Unexpected, as Set Three arrives with a new look, new artwork and slender cases replacing the full-sized cases. The first problem is that the remaining episodes from Season Five are not here in this new set. What happened to them? The other reason to keep Dahl’s name, though Dahl wrote none of these shows, is in case the Quinn Martin show of the same name from 1978 ever is issued on DVD. At this time, remarkably, none of his hit series have made it to DVD.

Skipping shows with the likes of Tony Franciosa, Shirley Knight, Gary Burghoff, Joanna Pettet, Dick Smothers, Sharon Gless, Fritz Weaver and Carol Lynley, one asks if it was a matter of rights or have these shows been lost?

Produced on PAL-format analog videotape, the show wanted to continue its commercial success it had established early on. It did, but the show was starting to run into troubles simply from the grind of weekly TV, even if it was an anthology show. The clever twists began to become repetitious at this point and the show was going into decline, something that can be said despite the missing shows.

Roald Dahl’s Tales Of The Unexpected continues its way onto DVD with Set Four, which covers 20 episodes to the last seasons, but the four sets in total still skip enough shows for one more volumes worth of releases. Let's hope the rest of the series makes it out soon.

<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bordercolor="white" width="100%"><tr><td rowspan="2" valign="top"><img src="http://www.filehigh.com/serve/23809/480446.jpg" width="200"></td><td width="100%"><a name="movie_0083">[7x01] The Dirty Detail (5/12/1984)</a></td></tr><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td valign="top" width="14%">ed2k:</td><td width="86%"> Not Available</tr></td><td><br></td><tr><td valign="top">Writer:</td><td>David Scott Milton (based on Henry Slesar's story)</td><tr><td valign="top">Director:</td><td>Leo Penn</td></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">Review: Fred Pearson is a U.S. Army veteran, but he came out of the Vietnam war with a miserable record. This was chiefly thanks to the bullying of Guedo, his sergeant, who gave Fred endless dirty detail punishments and broke his nerve. Since his discharge, Fred hasn't been able to hold down a job, and he feels the world is against him. Years on from Vietnam, and after another day of looking for work without success, Fred goes into his favourite bar to drown his sorrows - and there he finds none other than Guedo, boasting about his time as a big man in the U.S. Army. And Fred sees his chance of revenge.</table>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bordercolor="white" width="100%"><tr><td rowspan="2" valign="top"><img src="http://www.filehigh.com/serve/23809/479929.jpg" width="200"></td><td width="100%"><a name="movie_0084">[7x02] The Best Chess Player in the World (5/19/1984)</a></td></tr><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td valign="top" width="14%">ed2k:</td><td width="86%"> ed2k: Tales.of.the.Unexpected.[7x02].The.Best.Chess.Player.in.the.World.(xvid-eng).[1717Alan].avi [249.98 Mb] [Stats] </td><tr><td valign="top">Duration (Size):</td><td>26:19.200 (262,119,424 bytes)</td><tr><td valign="top">Video:</td><td>XviD 1.1.2 Final (MPEG-4) - OpenDML (AVI v2.0), 1208 kbps</td><tr><td valign="top">Resolution:</td><td>560 x 416 (40 ms, 14946520 frames, FPS: 25.0000) - B-VOP, 0.207" b/P</td><tr><td valign="top">Audio:</td><td>VBR, 1 stream(s), 0x0055 MPEG-1 Layer 3, 114kb/s (48000Hz), 2 channel(s), Aligned (40ms, preload: 504ms)</td><tr><td valign="top">Writer:</td><td>Peter Ramsley (based on Julian Symons' story)</td><tr><td valign="top">Director:</td><td>Graham Williams & Graham Evans</td></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">Review: An over-logical, cold man is obsessed with chess and uses it as a prerequisite to deal with people and reality, even when it involves his wife. Too bad this is about to backfire.</table>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bordercolor="white" width="100%"><tr><td rowspan="2" valign="top"><img src="http://www.filehigh.com/serve/23809/480446.jpg" width="200"></td><td width="100%"><a name="movie_0085">[7x03] Proxy (5/26/1984)</a></td></tr><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td valign="top" width="14%">ed2k:</td><td width="86%"> Not Available</tr></td><td><br></td><tr><td valign="top">Writer:</td><td>Bert Salzman (based on Talmage Powell's story)</td><tr><td valign="top">Director:</td><td>Bert Salzman</td></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">Review: A media tycoon and two of his lawyer friends are all being blackmailed by a scheming woman, who threatens to reveal their past affairs with her. Then the woman is found murdered in her apartment, and the men fear that the police inquiries will lead to one or all of them, and they will be ruined. Luckily, the media tycoon's faithful chauffeur, William, dreams up a brilliant plan for dealing with the situation. Or, at least, it looked brilliant at first sight.</table>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bordercolor="white" width="100%"><tr><td rowspan="2" valign="top"><img src="http://www.filehigh.com/serve/23809/479930.jpg" width="200"></td><td width="100%"><a name="movie_0086">[7x04] Have a Nice Death (6/2/1984)</a></td></tr><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td valign="top" width="14%">ed2k:</td><td width="86%"> ed2k: Tales.of.the.Unexpected.[7x04].Have.a.Nice.Death.(xvid-eng).[1717alan].avi [249.97 Mb] [Stats] </td><tr><td valign="top">Duration (Size):</td><td>26:05.000 (262,111,232 bytes)</td><tr><td valign="top">Video:</td><td>XviD 1.1.2 Final (MPEG-4) - OpenDML (AVI v2.0), 1223 kbps</td><tr><td valign="top">Resolution:</td><td>656 x 496 (40 ms, 14948216 frames, FPS: 25.0000) - B-VOP, 0.150" b/P</td><tr><td valign="top">Audio:</td><td>VBR, 1 stream(s), 0x0055 MPEG-1 Layer 3, 108kb/s (48000Hz), 2 channel(s), Aligned (40ms, preload: 504ms)</td><tr><td valign="top">Writer:</td><td>Wolf Mankowitz (based on Antonia Fraser's story)</td><tr><td valign="top">Director:</td><td>William Slater</td></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">Review: Sam Luke is a successful writer. He is also a leading male chauvinist, pushing the line that women are the fairer and weaker sex. He sees himself as a popular fellow, with no enemies, except perhaps that the feminists were less than thrilled about his book Women Weeping. Then the literary lion gets a series of 'Have a nice death' messages, his machismo crumbles and he decides to go home to his wife. But he finds it isn't so easy as it might once have been.</table>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bordercolor="white" width="100%"><tr><td rowspan="2" valign="top"><img src="http://www.filehigh.com/serve/23809/480446.jpg" width="200"></td><td width="100%"><a name="movie_0087">[7x05] Number Eight (6/9/1984)</a></td></tr><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td valign="top" width="14%">ed2k:</td><td width="86%"> Not Available</tr></td><td><br></td><tr><td valign="top">Writer:</td><td>Ross Thomas (based on Jack Ritchie's story)</td><tr><td valign="top">Director:</td><td>Leo Penn</td></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">Review: A smartly dressed driver, travelling on his own, picks up a thin, scruffy, wild-eyed hitch-hiker. As they drive off together, they hear warnings on the car radio of a dangerous serial killer on the run who has been called the Will-o-the-wisp Murderer. The man is said to be of slight build with fair hair, and it dawns on the driver that this description closely matches the hitch-hiker he has just picked up. And the man at the wheel forms a plan.</table>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bordercolor="white" width="100%"><tr><td rowspan="2" valign="top"><img src="http://www.filehigh.com/serve/23809/480446.jpg" width="200"></td><td width="100%"><a name="movie_0088">[7x06] The Last of the Midnight Gardeners (6/16/1984)</a></td></tr><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td valign="top" width="14%">ed2k:</td><td width="86%"> Not Available</tr></td><td><br></td><tr><td valign="top">Writer:</td><td>Gerald Savory (based on Tony Wilmot's story)</td><tr><td valign="top">Director:</td><td>Peter Hammond</td></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">Review: Walter Oats is a magazine publisher based in London. He has a rich wife and is also having an affair with his secretary, Edna. Walter launches a story-writing competition, with a £5,000 prize, to find the plot for a perfect murder, and his wife Jane taunts him into entering the competition himself under a pseudonym. But what exactly is Jane up to?</table>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bordercolor="white" width="100%"><tr><td rowspan="2" valign="top"><img src="http://www.filehigh.com/serve/23809/480446.jpg" width="200"></td><td width="100%"><a name="movie_0089">[7x07] The Gift of Beauty (6/30/1984)</a></td></tr><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td valign="top" width="14%">ed2k:</td><td width="86%"> Not Available</tr></td><td><br></td><tr><td valign="top">Writer:</td><td>Bert Salzman (based on Joseph Dougherty's story)</td><tr><td valign="top">Director:</td><td>Bert Salzman</td></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">Review: Elizabeth has a rich husband, until she kills him, with the help of Ray, her young lover. She then has a face lift and puts herself on a keep-fit regime, in the hope of closing the age-gap between her and Ray, but she finds it all too much for her. Then one day Elizabeth finds a flier advertising a new way to reverse the ageing process, and she decides to give it a try.</table>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bordercolor="white" width="100%"><tr><td rowspan="2" valign="top"><img src="http://www.filehigh.com/serve/23809/480446.jpg" width="200"></td><td width="100%"><a name="movie_0090">[7x08] Wet Saturday (7/7/1984)</a></td></tr><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td valign="top" width="14%">ed2k:</td><td width="86%"> Not Available</tr></td><td><br></td><tr><td valign="top">Writer:</td><td>John Collier (based on his own story)</td><tr><td valign="top">Director:</td><td>Norman Lloyd</td></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">Review: It's one of those days for a man of the world with a high standing in the community. Wet weather out of doors, and inside the house a dead body. Inconveniently, Princey's dim-witted daughter, Millicent, thwarted in love, has killed a young preacher with a croquet mallet, and Princey decides he must cover it up, or risk losing a lot of face. It's just a matter of persuading the police that there was a tragic accident - after all, they are not very bright, are they?</table>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bordercolor="white" width="100%"><tr><td rowspan="2" valign="top"><img src="http://www.filehigh.com/serve/23809/480446.jpg" width="200"></td><td width="100%"><a name="movie_0091">[7x09] Sauce for the Goose (7/21/1984)</a></td></tr><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td valign="top" width="14%">ed2k:</td><td width="86%"> Not Available</tr></td><td><br></td><tr><td valign="top">Writer:</td><td>Bert Salzman (based on Patricia Highsmith's story)</td><tr><td valign="top">Director:</td><td>Bert Salzman</td></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">Review: Olivia is a rich widow who seduces Stephen, a younger man with no money. He marries her on the strength of her inheritance from her late husband, whose death she has skillfully arranged. Stephen thinks he is in a position to go on playing the field, while Olivia has other ideas. When Stephen takes up with another woman, Olivia knows what has to be done...</table>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bordercolor="white" width="100%"><tr><td rowspan="2" valign="top"><img src="http://www.filehigh.com/serve/23809/480446.jpg" width="200"></td><td width="100%"><a name="movie_0092">[7x10] Bird of Prey (8/4/1984)</a></td></tr><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td valign="top" width="14%">ed2k:</td><td width="86%"> Not Available</tr></td><td><br></td><tr><td valign="top">Writer:</td><td>Ross Thomas (based on John Collier's story)</td><tr><td valign="top">Director:</td><td>Ray Danton</td></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">Review: Jack and Edna's pet parrot lays a huge egg - one much bigger than parrot-size - and promptly dies. Jack and Edna keep the egg warm, and it hatches into a menacing, black-feathered bird. Although it fails to talk, the new arrival soon begins keeping a close and disdainful eye on them... Jack befriends the bird, but Edna is unnerved by it - and she has good reason to be.</table>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bordercolor="white" width="100%"><tr><td rowspan="2" valign="top"><img src="http://www.filehigh.com/serve/23809/480446.jpg" width="200"></td><td width="100%"><a name="movie_0093">[7x11] I Like it Here in Wilmington (11/8/1984)</a></td></tr><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td valign="top" width="14%">ed2k:</td><td width="86%"> Not Available</tr></td><td><br></td><tr><td valign="top">Writer:</td><td>David Scott Milton (based on Henry Slesar's story)</td><tr><td valign="top">Director:</td><td>John Peyser</td></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">Review: Wilmington, Delaware, business man Harry Elton is a man on the verge of bankruptcy, as Marvin Castlemore, his partner in the rag trade, has made a disastrous guess on next season's fashions. Harry and his wife have a luxury lifestyle, and he has to decide whether to put his marriage or his business first. So he plans to murder his wife and collect her life insurance money.</table>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bordercolor="white" width="100%"><tr><td rowspan="2" valign="top"><img src="http://www.filehigh.com/serve/23809/480446.jpg" width="200"></td><td width="100%"><a name="movie_0094">[7x12] Accidental Death (8/19/1984)</a></td></tr><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td valign="top" width="14%">ed2k:</td><td width="86%"> Not Available</tr></td><td><br></td><tr><td valign="top">Writer:</td><td>Denis Cannan (based on Tony Wilmot's story)</td><tr><td valign="top">Director:</td><td>Peter Duffel</td></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">Review: Steve and Jane travel around England pretending to be market researchers for Silvertone Metal Polish. They con their way into people's houses to identify things worth stealing on a return visit. Then one day, in a hotel bar, they meet a scruffy old man called Percy. Local gossip has it that Percy is a rich miser with a hoard of money hidden in his tumble-down farmhouse, so Jane decides to call on him at home... But there is more to old Percy than meets the eye.</table>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bordercolor="white" width="100%"><tr><td rowspan="2" valign="top"><img src="http://www.filehigh.com/serve/23809/479931.jpg" width="200"></td><td width="100%"><a name="movie_0095">[7x13] The Reconciliation (9/16/1984)</a></td></tr><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td valign="top" width="14%">ed2k:</td><td width="86%"> ed2k: Tales.of.the.Unexpected.[7x13].The.Reconciliation.(xvid-eng).[1717alan].avi [250.00 Mb] [Stats] </td><tr><td valign="top">Duration (Size):</td><td>26:43.000 (262,144,000 bytes)</td><tr><td valign="top">Video:</td><td>XviD 1.1.2 Final (MPEG-4) - OpenDML (AVI v2.0), 1181 kbps</td><tr><td valign="top">Resolution:</td><td>608 x 464 (40 ms, 14948216 frames, FPS: 25.0000) - B-VOP, 0.167" b/P</td><tr><td valign="top">Audio:</td><td>VBR, 1 stream(s), 0x0055 MPEG-1 Layer 3, 111kb/s (48000Hz), 2 channel(s), Aligned (40ms, preload: 504ms)</td><tr><td valign="top">Writer:</td><td>Roy Russell (based on Nicholas Monsarrat's story)</td><tr><td valign="top">Director:</td><td>John Jacobs</td></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">Review: A married man wants out of his marriage because his wife is boring and predicable, or so he thought!</table>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bordercolor="white" width="100%"><tr><td rowspan="2" valign="top"><img src="http://www.filehigh.com/serve/23809/480446.jpg" width="200"></td><td width="100%"><a name="movie_0096">[7x14] The Mugger (10/14/1984)</a></td></tr><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td valign="top" width="14%">ed2k:</td><td width="86%"> Not Available</tr></td><td><br></td><tr><td valign="top">Writer:</td><td>Robin Chapman (based on Miriam Bienstock's idea)</td><tr><td valign="top">Director:</td><td>Peter Hammond</td></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">Review: Gerald Overton is an ambitious politician with the tough job of cracking violent crime. But a chance encounter with a beautiful woman at a dinner party leads him into a nightmare, and his whole career is threatened... Gerald surprises himself when he decides to take the law into his own hands.</table>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bordercolor="white" width="100%"><tr><td rowspan="2" valign="top"><img src="http://www.filehigh.com/serve/23809/480446.jpg" width="200"></td><td width="100%"><a name="movie_0097">[7x15] The Open Window (10/21/1984)</a></td></tr><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td valign="top" width="14%">ed2k:</td><td width="86%"> Not Available</tr></td><td><br></td><tr><td valign="top">Writer:</td><td>David Trainer (based on Saki's story)</td><tr><td valign="top">Director:</td><td>Christopher Lukas</td></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">Review: The 'open window' of the title is in a hunting lodge in the Connecticut hills. A young fellow goes through it and finds a strange new world on the other side which does not look much like New England...</table>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bordercolor="white" width="100%"><tr><td rowspan="2" valign="top"><img src="http://www.filehigh.com/serve/23809/480446.jpg" width="200"></td><td width="100%"><a name="movie_0098">[8x01] People Don't Do Such Things (3/30/1985)</a></td></tr><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td valign="top" width="14%">ed2k:</td><td width="86%"> Not Available</tr></td><td><br></td><tr><td valign="top">Writer:</td><td>Ross Thomas (based on Ruth Rendell's story)</td><tr><td valign="top">Director:</td><td>Gordon Hessler</td></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">Review: Reeve Baker is a successful young romantic novelist, and he lives life in the fast lane. Gwen Carter is the wife of Reeve's tax consultant and she falls for Reeve in a big way. Gwen's husband, Terence, knows all about Reeve and his ways with women, but his warnings to Gwen go unheeded. Terence is dismayed - but he knows what he wants next.</table>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bordercolor="white" width="100%"><tr><td rowspan="2" valign="top"><img src="http://www.filehigh.com/serve/23809/480446.jpg" width="200"></td><td width="100%"><a name="movie_0099">[8x02] In the Cards (7/14/1985)</a></td></tr><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td valign="top" width="14%">ed2k:</td><td width="86%"> Not Available</tr></td><td><br></td><tr><td valign="top">Writer:</td><td>Ross Thomas (based on John Collier's story)</td><tr><td valign="top">Director:</td><td>John Peyser</td></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">Review: Madame Myra is a third-rate fortune teller who foresees a dim future for herself. And then she meets a stranger in town who shows her a way to do a whole lot better. What, though, is in it for him?</table>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bordercolor="white" width="100%"><tr><td rowspan="2" valign="top"><img src="http://www.filehigh.com/serve/23809/480446.jpg" width="200"></td><td width="100%"><a name="movie_0100">[8x03] Nothin' Short of Highway Robbery (7/21/1985)</a></td></tr><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td valign="top" width="14%">ed2k:</td><td width="86%"> Not Available</tr></td><td><br></td><tr><td valign="top">Writer:</td><td>Luther Murdoch (based on Lawrence Block's story)</td><tr><td valign="top">Director:</td><td>John Peyser</td></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">Review: A husband and wife, Newt and Marcie, plan to drive home across the desert. They pull into a remote garage to fill their tank, and while they are there Harry the mechanic takes a look at their car and tells them it urgently needs some expensive repairs. Harry suggests Newt and Marcie should have a meal in his wife's eating house while he gets on with the work. But are the travellers being taken for a ride?</table>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bordercolor="white" width="100%"><tr><td rowspan="2" valign="top"><img src="http://www.filehigh.com/serve/23809/480446.jpg" width="200"></td><td width="100%"><a name="movie_0101">[8x04] Scrimshaw (7/28/1985)</a></td></tr><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td valign="top" width="14%">ed2k:</td><td width="86%"> Not Available</tr></td><td><br></td><tr><td valign="top">Writer:</td><td>Bernard Eizmann (based on Brian Garfield's story)</td><tr><td valign="top">Director:</td><td>Dezsö Magyar</td></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">Review: Brenda is a lonely drifter living in the island paradise of Key West, Florida. She has no friends and drinks a lot to forget her tragic past. Then Brenda runs into Eric, a man she knew long ago in her college days, and suddenly life takes on new meaning. But what is Eric really after?</table>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bordercolor="white" width="100%"><tr><td rowspan="2" valign="top"><img src="http://www.filehigh.com/serve/23809/480446.jpg" width="200"></td><td width="100%"><a name="movie_0102">[9x01] Skeleton in the Cupboard (12/18/1987)</a></td></tr><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td valign="top" width="14%">ed2k:</td><td width="86%"> Not Available</tr></td><td><br></td><tr><td valign="top">Writer:</td><td>Peter Ransley (based on Tony Wilmot's story)</td><tr><td valign="top">Director:</td><td>Paul Annett</td></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">Review: Robert Smythe is a ruthless executive who has a dangerous twenty-year-old secret - one which even his wife, Margaret, knows nothing about. Then an echo from the past prompts Robert into a new cover-up of the truth, and Margaret starts to become suspicious. So Robert reverts to type and tries a ruthless remedy.</table>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bordercolor="white" width="100%"><tr><td rowspan="2" valign="top"><img src="http://www.filehigh.com/serve/23809/480446.jpg" width="200"></td><td width="100%"><a name="movie_0103">[9x02] The Colonel's Lady (1/8/1988)</a></td></tr><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td valign="top" width="14%">ed2k:</td><td width="86%"> Not Available</tr></td><td><br></td><tr><td valign="top">Writer:</td><td>Denis Cannan (based on Somerset Maugham's story)</td><tr><td valign="top">Director:</td><td>Barry Davis</td></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">Review: Eve, the wife of Colonel George Peregrine, writes a book of love poems which is a huge success. Eve is soon in demand everywhere, but her book seems to include revelations about her love life, and it has a disastrous effect on her marriage. The colonel is anxious to find out the identity of the young man Eve's poems were addressed to - and when she tells him, the truth hits hard.</table>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bordercolor="white" width="100%"><tr><td rowspan="2" valign="top"><img src="http://www.filehigh.com/serve/23809/480446.jpg" width="200"></td><td width="100%"><a name="movie_0104">[9x03] The Surgeon (1/15/1988)</a></td></tr><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td valign="top" width="14%">ed2k:</td><td width="86%"> Not Available</tr></td><td><br></td><tr><td valign="top">Writer:</td><td>Robin Chapman (based on Roald Dahl's story)</td><tr><td valign="top">Director:</td><td>Graham Evans</td></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">Review: Robert Sandy is an Oxford doctor, and one day a grateful patient - a Saudi Arabian prince - gives him a huge diamond. Robert and his wife Betty find that their new jewel, if they keep it, is really more of a liability than an asset - and Robert has to face up to his own lust for money. Dr Sandy's death comes as a surprise - but was it a form of rough justice?</table>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bordercolor="white" width="100%"><tr><td rowspan="2" valign="top"><img src="http://www.filehigh.com/serve/23809/480446.jpg" width="200"></td><td width="100%"><a name="movie_0105">[9x04] The Verger (1/22/1988)</a></td></tr><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td valign="top" width="14%">ed2k:</td><td width="86%"> Not Available</tr></td><td><br></td><tr><td valign="top">Writer:</td><td>Denis Cannan (based on Somerset Maugham's story)</td><tr><td valign="top">Director:</td><td>Rodney Bennett</td></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">Review: Albert and Milly Dobson have given sixteen years of devoted service to their parish church, but then a new Vicar arrives who does not like the old ways and who has little time for the Dobsons. After some radical changes, a secret which Albert has hidden for years comes out and causes consternation. In defiance, the couple set out to build a new life. Of course, God moves in mysterious ways.</table>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bordercolor="white" width="100%"><tr><td rowspan="2" valign="top"><img src="http://www.filehigh.com/serve/23809/480446.jpg" width="200"></td><td width="100%"><a name="movie_0106">[9x05] The Facts of Life (1/29/1988)</a></td></tr><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td valign="top" width="14%">ed2k:</td><td width="86%"> Not Available</tr></td><td><br></td><tr><td valign="top">Writer:</td><td>Noella Smith (based on Somerset Maugham's story)</td><tr><td valign="top">Director:</td><td>John Gorrie</td></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">Review: Nicholas Lillie is an inexperienced young man who lives in a remote rural area, and he is constantly held back by his parents. But Nicholas is a keen amateur fencer, and he qualifies for a national fencing contest which is to be held in London. When Nicholas travels up to the bright lights, he gets caught up in a very strange adventure.</table>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bordercolor="white" width="100%"><tr><td rowspan="2" valign="top"><img src="http://www.filehigh.com/serve/23809/480446.jpg" width="200"></td><td width="100%"><a name="movie_0107">[9x06] Wink Three Times (4/15/1988)</a></td></tr><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td valign="top" width="14%">ed2k:</td><td width="86%"> Not Available</tr></td><td><br></td><tr><td valign="top">Writer:</td><td>Paul Ableman (based on John Charters's story)</td><tr><td valign="top">Director:</td><td>Paul Annett</td></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">Review: Jeremy Tyler, a timid provincial solicitor, is visiting a smart London hotel on a business trip and becomes embroiled in a curious case of mistaken identity. Babs Colport has arranged a blind date through a dating agency. Jeremy, looking for female company, tries to seduce her.</table>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bordercolor="white" width="100%"><tr><td rowspan="2" valign="top"><img src="http://www.filehigh.com/serve/23809/480446.jpg" width="200"></td><td width="100%"><a name="movie_0108">[9x07] The Dead Don't Steal (4/22/1988)</a></td></tr><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td valign="top" width="14%">ed2k:</td><td width="86%"> Not Available</tr></td><td><br></td><tr><td valign="top">Writer:</td><td>Robin Chapman (based on Ella Griffiths's story)</td><tr><td valign="top">Director:</td><td>John Glenister</td></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">Review: Secretary Lilian Brett is having an affair with her boss Ken Johnson, and his wife Annie is angry about it. Then Lillian says she wants to end their affair, as she has found someone else, and Ken does something he didn't mean to do.</table>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bordercolor="white" width="100%"><tr><td rowspan="2" valign="top"><img src="http://www.filehigh.com/serve/23809/480446.jpg" width="200"></td><td width="100%"><a name="movie_0109">[9x08] The Finger of Suspicion (4/29/1988)</a></td></tr><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td valign="top" width="14%">ed2k:</td><td width="86%"> Not Available</tr></td><td><br></td><tr><td valign="top">Writer:</td><td>Robin Chapman (based on Tony Wilmot's story)</td><tr><td valign="top">Director:</td><td>Rodney Bennett</td></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">Review: American safe-cracker Steve Baker is married to a beautiful Arab, and they are leading an idyllic life together in a Middle Eastern country - but then Steve is threatened with extradition for a crime he says he didn't commit.</table>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bordercolor="white" width="100%"><tr><td rowspan="2" valign="top"><img src="http://www.filehigh.com/serve/23809/480446.jpg" width="200"></td><td width="100%"><a name="movie_0110">[9x09] A Time to Die (5/6/1988)</a></td></tr><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td valign="top" width="14%">ed2k:</td><td width="86%"> Not Available</tr></td><td><br></td><tr><td valign="top">Writer:</td><td>Robin Chapman (based on Aileen Wheeler's story)</td><tr><td valign="top">Director:</td><td>Paul Annett</td></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">Review: Yves Drouard is a romantic French electronics expert whose love life has become rather too complicated. His marriage to Marthe has cooled, and his young mistress, Violette, has announced that she is pregnant. Yves is forced into a decision - but something he failed to foresee leads to an outcome he did not reckon on at all.</table>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bordercolor="white" width="100%"><tr><td rowspan="2" valign="top"><img src="http://www.filehigh.com/serve/23809/480446.jpg" width="200"></td><td width="100%"><a name="movie_0111">[9x10] Mr Know-All (5/13/1988)</a></td></tr><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td valign="top" width="14%">ed2k:</td><td width="86%"> Not Available</tr></td><td><br></td><tr><td valign="top">Writer:</td><td>Paul Ableman (based on Somerset Maugham's story)</td><tr><td valign="top">Director:</td><td>Gareth Davies</td></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">Review: Pretty medical student Elly Somerton is working as a hotel chambermaid and falls for a guest at the hotel, Professor Max Kelada. Kelada is a well-known archaeologist with a profitable sideline in identifying ancient artefacts, and he faces a dilemma when he is asked to identify a fake relic he designed himself.</table>

Tastehere are six people eating a fine dinner at the house of Mike Schofield, a London stockbroker: Mike, his wife and daughter, an unnamed narrator and his wife, and a wine connoisseur, Richard Pratt. Pratt often makes small bets with Schofield to guess what wine is being served at the table, but during the night in the story he is uninterested, instead attempting to socialize with Schofield's eighteen-year-old daughter, Louise.When Schofield brings the second wine of the night he remarks that it will be impossible to guess where it is from, but Pratt takes that as a challenge. The tough talk on both sides leads the two to increase the bet until Pratt declares that he would like to bet for the hand of Schofield's daughter in marriage--if he loses, he will give Schofield both of his houses. Though his wife and daughter are understandably horrified, Mike eventually convinces them to accept the bet--it is too good a deal to pass up, especially since the wine will be impossible to identify.However, Pratt proceeds to name the district, commune, vineyard, and the year of the wine (though Mike doesn't turn over the bottle, his reaction appears to be one of disbelief that Pratt could've guessed correctly). At this moment, however, the maid walks in and returns to Pratt his glasses, which he had left on the cabinet in the study earlier in the evening where the bottle had been left out to reach room temperature. (Pratt had picked out this place in the study on an earlier visit as the ideal place to sit the wine--his glasses being left there reveals that he knew the wine in advance and cheated on the bet.) The story ends with Mike starting to get angry and his wife telling him to calm down.

Man from the SouthA man offers an American boy his Cadillac if the boy can strike a lighter ten times in a row. The catch is that if he cannot, his finger will be cut off.This short story was remade as an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents by the same name. It was also the inspiration for the Quentin Tarantino-directed segment of the 1995 film Four Rooms.

Parson's PleasureMr Cyril Boggis is an antique dealer in Chelsea, London. He does not have a large shop, but he still manages to make a profit each year by buying the most remarkable pieces of furniture at very low prices and selling them for large profits. His friends in the trade wonder where he finds such rare items so regularly. It turns out that Mr Boggis's scheme is rather simple: he dresses up as a clergyman and visits English farmhouses under the pretenses of writing articles for the Society for the Preservation of Rare Furniture. When he finds something valuable, he makes the person an offer and then sells the item in his shop for twenty times as much.On this particular trip he is travelling the county of Buckinghamshire and comes across three locals (Claud, Bert, and Rummins) near a dirty, ramshackle farmhouse. Once he convinces them to let him inside, he is astonished to see a Chippendale Commode standing in the living room. The Commodes were made by the famous 18th-century furniture maker Thomas Chippendale, and only three others were known to be in existence. Boggis nearly faints when he realises that this piece could fetch up to twenty thousand pounds in an auction. He recovers, though, and mentions that he needs a new set of legs for a table he has at home. The ones on the commode, he says, would just fit. Rummins is doubtful, and so Boggis cons him into thinking that the piece is simply a worthless Victorian reproduction. He finally ends up purchasing the commode for the grand total of twenty pounds.After he leaves to get his car, the three men decide to help him out by cutting the legs off for him. Rummins also speculates that the parson might cancel the deal if he cannot fit the entire piece into his car (he does not know that Boggis has a station wagon), so Claud takes an axe and breaks the commode to pieces. "I'll tell you one thing," he says. "That was a bloody good carpenter put this job together and I don't care what the parson says." At that moment, Mr Boggis drives up in his car.

Nunc DimittisWhen the wealthy Lionel Lampson learns that his younger girlfriend Janet thinks him, among other things, a "crashing bore," he devises an elaborate revenge. He visits the artist John Royden and asks him to paint Janet's portrait with the stipulation that she not know who has commissioned it. Royden has an unusual method: He paints his subjects nude and then adds every layer of clothing one at a time. When the portrait is completed, Lionel (who just happens to be skilled at restoring and cleaning paintings) removes the top layer of paint, exposing Janet in her underclothes. He then stages a dinner party for Janet and some of society's elite, where, at the end of the candle-lit meal, the lights are suddenly turned on and the painting is revealed for all to see. Lionel unobservedly leaves the room (but not before seeing the stunned look on Janet's face) and slips away to his house in the country, basking in the success of his scheme. A few days later he receives a container of excellent caviare along with a letter from Janet saying that she forgives him and still loves him. Not being able to resist his favorite food, Lionel indulges himself and, by the end of the story, begins to feel violently ill. The implication is that Lionel has been poisoned, perhaps fatally, by Janet.

I was sure there was an episode called 'The Monkey's Paw'. I loved that episode (if it was TOTU) - the one were the mother and father have 3 wishes and their son ends up getting killed because they wished for an amount of money, that just so happened to be the exact amount insurance on his death.......and it goes on from there. Anyone remember this at all. I was certain it was the first series as I remember the first episode here very clearly when it first aired.

I wish I could help you to get it, wherever the episode comes from (Roald Dahl's series or not) but it's unavailable.

I'm working on a thread for Alfred Hitchcock's series ("presents", "Hours" and "Suspicion"), will let you know if I find something somewhere.

For the moment, don't have the one you're looking for.

Fuckin' Nick (and the others interested by Roald Dahl's stuff), again, please wait a bit (nothing to do with Filehigh, the threads will look shite for a moment, will update them later, when time will be on my side), I really need my pipe for other games...

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